UN Offers Online Shopping for Carbon Offsets

At the U.N. climate change conference outside Paris, participants can make up  for the greenhouse gases they produced getting there by giving money to a power plant in Chile. It may sound strange, but it's part of a U.N.-backed system aimed at helping developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The Nueva Aldea Phase 2 power plant in Chile is burning a byproduct of the wood pulping process. It's a form of biomass, a renewable resource with lower carbon...

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